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A student who has studied Japanese for several years recommended this resource to AMSER. The site is an online Japanese-English Dictionary and it is set apart from other dictionary or translation sites because of the ability of a user to look up kanji in more than one way, including drawing them using a java applet. Other useful features include cell-phone friendly pages for Japanese to English translation, and vice versa. For a good introduction on how the site is formulated users should click on ï¿½View Documentationï¿½ for a good general overview before digging in.

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Learning hiragana and katakana is an important part of reading and speaking Japanese. The following pages contain: Hiragana -...
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Learning hiragana and katakana is an important part of reading and speaking Japanese. The following pages contain: Hiragana - stroke order videos, pronunciation, and vocabulary for each character; reading and listening audio exercises; handouts on how to construct words and sentences; interactive quizzes testing character recognition; and printable worksheets to practice writing characters. Katakana - pronunciation and vocabulary for each character; reading and listening audio exercises; interactive quizzes testing character and vocabulary recognition; and printable worksheets to practice writing characters. These materials were developed as part of the Japanese curriculum at MIT for students of all levels to learn and review. Students and instructors are encouraged to incorporate them directly or as supplements in their study of Japanese. Technical Requirements This site is encoded in Unicode (UTF-8); please check your browser settings if characters render incorrectly: Internet Explorer version 6.0+ (Windows) - View → Encoding Safari version 4.0+ (Mac OSX) - View → Text Encoding Firefox 3.0+ (all platforms) - View → Character Encoding Opera (all platforms) - View → Encoding Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .mov.

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Kansai-ben is the most powerful regional dialect in Japan nowadays, spoken by over twenty million people including those in...
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Kansai-ben is the most powerful regional dialect in Japan nowadays, spoken by over twenty million people including those in Osaka, Kobe, Nara and Kyoto. Though the Kansai dialect has linguistically distinctive features from Standard Tokyo dialect, native speakers of Japanese are used to hearing it and usually have little problem understanding it because the dialect is widely used in the entertainment industry and in the media (by Kansai comedians, for example). However, it is a challenge for foreign learners of Japanese to comprehend it since only "standard" Japanese is taught in the U.S. Most students never have a chance to realize the fact that there are big regional differences in how the Japanese language is spoken; they tend to find out only after they go to Japan and experience difficulty understanding what the local people are saying. This site is designed for those who are in or are going to the Kansai area for work, study or travel as well as for those who are simply interested in the cultural, linguistic diversity in Japan. The site will help you to gain basic knowledge of structure and intonation patterns of the Kansai dialect, and to build up basic aural (and a touch of oral) communication skills with Kansai native speakers. By including video clips of interviews to various Kansai local people, this site can also be a helpful resource to examine how this local dialect relates to their local identity.

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If you're studying written Japanese, this may help you learn and understand Kanji compounds and characters. Kiki lets you...
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If you're studying written Japanese, this may help you learn and understand Kanji compounds and characters. Kiki lets you browse to learn useful kanji and compounds, rather than searching for a single kanji and viewing it out of context.

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LearningLanguages.net is a portal that brings together online foreign language resources for English-speaking K-12 students...
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LearningLanguages.net is a portal that brings together online foreign language resources for English-speaking K-12 students and teachers of French, Spanish and Japanese. The project was created and is maintained and enhanced by staff at the Internet Scout.

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״Nihongo o manaboo״, which literally means "Let's learn Japanese״, is a collection of flash based animations for elementary...
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״Nihongo o manaboo״, which literally means "Let's learn Japanese״, is a collection of flash based animations for elementary and middle school students . They can practice listening, speaking, reading and writing conversations, lines, vocabularies, etc. They can participate in conversations interactively by choosing different answers with different scenarios. The topics cover various items related to school life in Japan.

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This textbook is designed for students who have intermediate competency in Japanese, roughly at Level 2 on the ILR (The...
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This textbook is designed for students who have intermediate competency in Japanese, roughly at Level 2 on the ILR (The Interagency Language Roundtable) proficiency scale, and are working on reaching Level 3.This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of online course, and in a traditional classroom setting. It is comprised of four chapters, intended to be covered in one term of a quarter system.

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This textbook is designed for students who have intermediate competency in Japanese, roughly at Level 2 on the ILR (The...
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This textbook is designed for students who have intermediate competency in Japanese, roughly at Level 2 on the ILR (The Interagency Language Roundtable) proficiency scale, and are working on reaching Level 3. This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of online course, and in a traditional classroom setting. It is comprised of four chapters, intended to be covered in one term of a quarter system.

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This textbook is designed for students who have intermediate competency in Japanese, roughly at Level 2 on the ILR (The Interagency Language Roundtable) proficiency scale, and are working on reaching Level 3. This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of online course, and in a traditional classroom setting. It is comprised of four chapters, intended to be covered in one term of a quarter system.

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'RomajiDesu is a free online Romaji/Japanese ⇆ English dictionary which contains the following useful tools for Japanese...
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'RomajiDesu is a free online Romaji/Japanese ⇆ English dictionary which contains the following useful tools for Japanese learners:Japanese-Romaji-English dictionary: This is the unique English-Japanese dictionary where you just need to type your word into a single input. Your input may be Japanese (that is Kanji Hiragana, or Katakana), Romaji or English. The dictionary will find the appropriate definition and example sentences containing the word for you.English Japanese Kanji dictionary: Include a powerful Kanji lookup form and a easy to use a multiple Kanji radicals (parts) lookup method with beautiful stroke order diagrams and detail information.Romaji to Hiragana converter and Romaji to Katakana converter: It's useful if you know the Romaji form of some Japanese words and want to see how to write it in Hiragana/Katakana. It can also translate the word or phrases to English using Google translate engine.Japanese to Romaji converter (beta): Help you read and lookup the meaning of a Japanese paragraph for you.

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